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I've just purchased a 2GB DDR2 RAM. My machine earlier had a 1GB DDR2 RAM stick. Now I put these two sticks together, and my machine, I think, showed only 2GR of RAM?

Why is this so? Will using the 2GB+1GB together corrupt the 2GB stick?

Update:

The computer has a linux based os installed. I did an lspci command and saved the paste online. It can be reached here - this can give you some information on the chipset being used, I hope.

I have obtained a 2gb DDR 2 stick, but when I install it on my pc and boot, at the BIOS, it says 983040 k OK + 64M during memtest. When I did my math it comes to 1GB.

deostroll
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  • Check your motherboard manual. Some of the have special requirements regarding slot population (type/size/speed).
  • Download CPU-Z (I'm assuming you're using windows) and check how it sees your Dimms
DrNoone
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Your motherboard probably has a 2gb max.

kobaltz
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